Date: 31-Mar-2014From: Felicitas Kleber
<kleberphonetik.uni-muenchen.de>Subject: Gestural Coordination
Within and Between Speakers in 1st Language
Phonological AcquisitionE-mail this message to a
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Full Title: Gestural Coordination Within and
Between Speakers in 1st Language Phonological
Acquisition

This satellite workshop, to be held in
conjunction with LabPhon 14, addresses the
challenges of investigating the role of
gestural coordination in first language
phonological acquisition, with coordination
construed broadly to encompass both the
coordination of gestures within the individual
infant or child and the coordination of
gestures between the individual and others in
social interactions such as the act of
imitation. The workshop will focus on both
types of coordination, in an afternoon session
with submitted papers on the quantification of
data obtained with experimental techniques
following a morning session with invited
speakers talking about imitation and learning
from infancy through early childhood. The goal
is to discuss novel experimental methods in
phonological acquisition research and to relate
models of imitation and learning in adults to
models of imitation and learning in infants and
toddlers.

Call for Papers:

Up to 9 papers describing the elicitation and
quantification of child speech data obtained by
experimental methods will be accepted for
presentation as posters and discussion in the
afternoon session on “Gestural coordination
within the individual.” Groups of people
working on similar methods are encouraged to
submit abstracts for collaborative posters. All
abstracts must be written in English.

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